On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 23:43:04 +0200, Bernd Oppolzer wrote:

>Although the eyecatcher on SAVE (one byte length field
>at EPA+4 followed by the message) seems to be kind of part of
>the OS linkage conventions,

The language conventions are defined in the Assembler Services Guide.  An
eyecatcher is not part of it, AFAIK.

>Same goes for the lack
>of forward save area chaining by LE - SYSUDUMP is only capable of printing
>a forward save area chain, if the LSA pointers in the save areas are filled
>correctly.

Not true.  SYSUDUMP shows the save areas going forward, then going
backward from register 13.

Forward chains are not reliable for diagnosis, especially  when
there are AMODE 64 programs in the mix.  Or programs that use the
Linkage Stack.

And don't get me started on XPLINK.

--
Tom Marchant

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